... and a crore is more!
Two words that I've encountered with a great deal of frequency - from headlines to TV news shows to everyday conversations.
"15 lakh estimated in air passengers this year" was a headline in today's newspaper.
A lakh is part of a numbering system ... it is 100,000.
So, 15 lakh is 15*100,000 ... or 1.5 million ... but it would be written numerically as 15,00,000 instead of 1,500,000.
And 30 lakh is 3 million ... which would more commonly be written out as 30,00,000 instead of 3,000,000.
It's the same amount of zeros ... just organized differently. How's that for "new math?"
A crore is one hundred lakhs ... which is ten million.
My head hurts.
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